Sesame Workshop to Obama: Take Big Bird ad down
Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, is requesting that the Obama campaign take down a new ad portraying Mitt Romney as more concerned with Big Bird than Wall Street criminals.
"Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns," the group said. "We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down."
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters today that they're reviewing Sesame Workshop's request to pull the ad.
"It doesn't change the fact that there's only one candidate in this race who is going to continue to fight for Big Bird and Elmo and he's riding on this plane," Psaki told reporters on Air Force One, en route to an Obama campaign event in Ohio.
"There's been a strong grassroots outcry over the attacks on Big Bird," Psaki added.
"This is something that mothers across the country are alarmed about. And we're tapping into that."
The ad grew out of a comment by Romney in the presidential debate in which the Republican presidential candidate said that while he likes Big Bird, he wants to cut off the small government subsidy for public broadcasting.
It begins with a narrator invoking convicted "gluttons of greed" such as Bernie Madoff and Kenneth Lay before cheekily saying only "one man has the guts" to speak the name of "evil genius who towered over" them: Big Bird. The ad continues with clips of Romney saying "Big Bird," followed by a clip of Big Bird saying, "It's me, Big Bird."
"Big, yellow, a menace to our economy," the ad jokingly continues. "Mitt Romney knows it's not Wall Street you have to worry about, it's Sesame Street."
"Mitt Romney, taking on our enemies no matter where they nest."
Romney: "I love Big Bird," but I'd cut PBS funding
The ad follows the criticism unveiled by President Obama the day after last Wednesday's debate, during which Romney said that while "I love Big Bird", he would cut funding to PBS.
On Thursday, Mr. Obama told a crowd in Denver, "Thank God someone is getting tough on Big Bird. ... We didn't know Big Bird was driving the deficit."
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg responded to the ad, telling CBS News in an email: "Four years ago, President Obama said that if you don't have a record to run on, 'you make a big election about small things.' With 23 million people struggling for work, incomes falling, and gas prices soaring, Americans deserve more from their president."
The Obama campaign tells CBS News that the ad, which you can watch below, will run on national cable - not specifically in any battleground states - and would not indicate how much they're spending on the ad buy.
Caroline Horn contributed to this report.
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Posted on October 10, 2012 by jcarroll
Romney Revealed: privatize Social Security, voucher Medicare, repeal Obama Care, repeal equal pay for women, send pre-existing conditions to the emergency room, cut the safety net, kill programs like "Big Bird,"and shift a lot of Federal Programs to the states. The states would have to double state sales tax to pay for their share of them. He would give all the states a "Double Flat Tax." Cutting the "Safety Net" will send poor people into the streets of Suburbia where the rich live. There will be gun fire and blood in the streets. Romney would use the office of the President to spread his faith of Mormanism, and as a stepping-stone to head of the Morman Church-his major goal. He wants a place beside Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Visit the Internet Free Press and see how you can help PEOPLE POWER PRICE CONTROL and Consumer Price Control bring down the price of gasoline below $3.00 per gallon.
President of the Church From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Mormanism...
In the Latter Day Saint cult movement, the President of the Church is generally considered to be the highest office of the church. It was the office held by Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the cult, and the office assumed by many of Smith's claimed successors, such as Brigham Young, Joseph Smith III, Sidney Rigdon, and James Strang. Several other titles have been associated with this office, including First Elder of the church, Presiding High Priest, President of the High Priesthood, Trustee-in-Trust for the church, Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Translator, and Ruler (in Israel). The movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., the first president of the church, was known by all of these titles in his lifetime (although not necessarily with consistency).
WOULD A PRESIDENT ROMNEY GIVE A PARDON TO WARREN JEFFS?
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church).[a] In 2011, Jeffs was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault.[5]
Jeffs gained international notoriety in May 2006 when he was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on Utah state charges related to his alleged arrangement of illegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls. He was arrested in August 2006 in Nevada, and agreed to be taken to Utah for trial. In May and July 2007 the State of Arizona charged him with eight additional counts, including sexual conduct with minors and incest, in two separate cases.[6]
His Utah trial, which began in early September 2007 in St. George, Utah, lasted less than a month, and on September 25 he was convicted of two counts of rape as an accomplice.[7] On November 20, 2007 he was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years to life and began serving his sentence at the Utah State Prison. However, the conviction was overturned by the Utah Supreme Court on July 27, 2010 because of incorrect jury instructions.[8]
He was extradited to Texas, where he was found guilty of sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault of children in connection with a raid of an FLDS owned and occupied West Texas ranch in 2008.[9] After the jury had deliberated for less than 30 minutes, 55-year-old Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years and a $10,000 fine, to be served consecutively, for sexual assault of both 12 and 15-year-old girls.[10]
Rebecca Drum "Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits" Matthew 7 verse 15 and 16. Don't take my word for it. Look it up!
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Way to be purposefully obtuse, EmpireGeorge. He was saying that our tax dollars are being given to other countries in aid so that those countries can have public health care systems and other things that America doesn't have and should have.